Coastal environment
Herschel Island is a remarkable place. For hundreds of years, it sustained aboriginal people who lived off the sea, and its shelter provided a base for the western Arctic whaling fleet in the 1890s. It was named by John Franklin during a voyage to establish sovereignty over arctic North America, and...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:31069 2023-05-15T14:21:51+02:00 Coastal environment Couture, N. Pollard, W. H. Lantuit, Hugues Burn, C. R. 2012-05 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31069/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39922 unknown Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope), Yukon Couture, N. , Pollard, W. H. and Lantuit, H. orcid:0000-0003-1497-6760 (2012) Coastal environment / C. Burn (editor) , In: Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island, Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island, Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope), Yukon, 138 p., ISBN: 0988000911 . hdl:10013/epic.39922 EPIC3Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island, Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island, Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope), Yukon, 138 p., ISBN: 0988000911 Inbook peerRev 2012 ftawi 2021-12-24T15:37:55Z Herschel Island is a remarkable place. For hundreds of years, it sustained aboriginal people who lived off the sea, and its shelter provided a base for the western Arctic whaling fleet in the 1890s. It was named by John Franklin during a voyage to establish sovereignty over arctic North America, and it was the location of the first police detachment in the Canadian Arctic. The rise of the fur trade in the 1910s and 1920s led to the Inuvialuit becoming the wealthiest aboriginal people in Canada at the time. Herschel Island was a logistical centre during the offshore oil boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, but it is now designated as a territorial park, a reserve established as a result of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. As a wilderness park, it is a semi-contained ecosystem, and presents land, ocean, and coastal environments. Book Part Arctic Arctic Herschel Island Inuvialuit Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Arctic Canada Herschel Island ENVELOPE(-139.089,-139.089,69.583,69.583) |
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Herschel Island is a remarkable place. For hundreds of years, it sustained aboriginal people who lived off the sea, and its shelter provided a base for the western Arctic whaling fleet in the 1890s. It was named by John Franklin during a voyage to establish sovereignty over arctic North America, and it was the location of the first police detachment in the Canadian Arctic. The rise of the fur trade in the 1910s and 1920s led to the Inuvialuit becoming the wealthiest aboriginal people in Canada at the time. Herschel Island was a logistical centre during the offshore oil boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, but it is now designated as a territorial park, a reserve established as a result of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. As a wilderness park, it is a semi-contained ecosystem, and presents land, ocean, and coastal environments. |
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Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope), Yukon |
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EPIC3Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island, Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island, Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope), Yukon, 138 p., ISBN: 0988000911 |
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Couture, N. , Pollard, W. H. and Lantuit, H. orcid:0000-0003-1497-6760 (2012) Coastal environment / C. Burn (editor) , In: Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island, Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History of Yukon's Arctic Island, Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope), Yukon, 138 p., ISBN: 0988000911 . hdl:10013/epic.39922 |
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